Gala in childhood. In rain.
In white garments. On a train
with a book and a suitcase.
Gala with swans, untouched
...
The room. The white piano.
The stars gone slack.
The unmistakable rising up
to meet her. In heels and
...
She thought it was green, not
the emerald green of Indian summer
but a green like a darkening plain,
or the shadow rivers cast.
...